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Mike Rounds: “One member of the Senate can hold up action based upon you…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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That's what we're supposed to work on. But we started early anyway and so are we doing our best to get them out and to get them across the floor? Yes, but One member of the Senate can hold up action based upon you have to have a cloture vote on each one. which means you have to have basically the things saying we're going to stop and and we're going to actually vote at a particular time on a particular issue. (05:00–05:07)

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Asserts that a single senator can delay legislative action by requiring a cloture vote.

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